Friday, November 01, 2002

Innovation in search.  I have been using Find search on my desktop (beta) for a couple of weeks.  Here is what I like about it: It's extremely fast.  Subsecond performance for everything. It provides you with a preview pane so you don't have to leave the search results to get to the result.  This speeds up my search workflow. It combines external search (pick a search engine) with desktop search (all files, including e-mail). Here is what I don't like about it: It doesn't let me restrict my search to specific file types. The interface is still a little rough (too busy).  I would also like to be able to index sites that interest me.  A little more on that last point.  I know that this feature would quickly get out of hand from a scalability standpoint, but it would enable me to compensate for the gaps in the indexes at the major search engines (for the site's that I like). [John Robb's Radio Weblog] 11:50:42 AM